Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
The Prime Ministers' Craft
Why Some Succeed and Others Fail in Westminster Systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Prime ministers are presented as ever-more powerful figures; at the same time they seem to fail more regularly. How can the public image be so different from the apparent experience? This book seeks to answer this conundrum. It examines the myth that prime ministers are growing more powerful or that...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
The fragility of democracy in Southeast Asia is a subject of increasing concern. While there has been significant movement in the direction of democratisation, the authoritarian tendencies of popularly elected leaders and the challenges posed by emerging security threats have given rise to a shared...
The Process of Politics
A Comparative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The successful teaching of an introductory course in comparative politics or comparative government--as any instructor will agree involves the presentation of information organized around a coherent framework. Therefore, to be effective, a textbook must provide an articulate, methodical structure...
by Weronika Tkocz
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, grade: 1,7 (A-), Free University of Berlin (JFK Institute for North American Studies), course: Governance and the Restructuring of the Welfare state: Comparing the US and Germany, 39 entries in...
by Merilee S. Grindle
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Patronage systems in public service are reviled as undemocratic and corrupt. Yet patronage was the prevailing method of staffing government for centuries, and in some countries it still is. Grindle considers why patronage has been ubiquitous in history and explores the processes through which it is replaced by merit-based civil service systems.
Party-System Collapse
The Roots of Crisis in Peru and Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Most party systems are relatively stable over time. Yet in the 1980s and 1990s, established party systems in Peru and Venezuela broke down, leading to the elections of outsider Alberto Fujimori and anti-party populist Hugo Chavez. Focusing on these two cases, this book explores the causes of systemic...
Party Politics in Japan
Political Chaos and Stalemate in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
The Japanese political system is a parliamentary democracy and was the first western style government in Asia when the parliamentary system was adopted in the 1880s. It has a multiparty system, free elections, and a parliament that functions much the same way that any other democratic parliament functions,...
Self-Organizing Federalism
Collaborative Mechanisms to Mitigate Institutional Collective Action Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
This book investigates the self-organizing responses of governments and interests to the institutional collective action (ICA) dilemmas of particular concern to students of federalism, urban governance, and regional management of natural resources. ICA dilemmas arise in fragmented systems whenever...
The Selection of Political Party Leaders in Contemporary Parliamentary Democracies
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This book explores the ways in which political parties, in contemporary parliamentary democracies, choose their leaders and then subsequently hold them accountable. The authors provide a comprehensive examination of party leadership selection and accountability both through examination of parties...
by Allen Hicken
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
This book addresses the question of why a party system with a modest number of nationally oriented political parties emerges in some democracies but not others. The number of parties and nationalization are the product of coordination between voters, candidates, and party leaders within local electoral...
Populism and Patronage
Why Populists Win Elections in India, Asia, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Populist rule is bad for democracy, yet in country after country, populists are being voted into office. Populism and Patronage shows that the populists such as Indira Gandhi and Narendra Modi win elections when the institutionalized ties between non-populist parties and voters decay. Yet, the explanations...
Participation in Social Policy
Public Health in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Health is a defining feature of life and its politics vital. Governments and international organizations have promoted community participation in public health since the late 1970s. However, we lack comparative studies of these participatory institutions in public health. This Element proposes a conceptualization...
by Daniel Fischer
Language: German
Release Date: May 23, 2008
Language: German
Release Date: May 23, 2008
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Systeme - Allgemeines und Vergleiche, Note: bestanden, Technische Universität Dresden (Institut für Politikwissenschaft ), Veranstaltung: Verschriftlichung der mündlichen Staatsexamensprüfung vom 13. November 2007 , 25 Quellen...
Wahlrecht und Demokratisierung
Das Volk als Vetospieler? Betrachtet am Beispiel der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Schweiz
Language: German
Release Date: March 10, 2009
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Systeme - Allgemeines und Vergleiche, Note: 2,0, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität - Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg (Professur für Politikwissenschaft, insbesondere Vergleichende Regierungslehre), Veranstaltung: Vetopunkte im internationalen...